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June 14, 2017, Earthjustice.org http://tinyurl.com/y82f8ly8 Washington, D.C. — The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe won a significant victory today in its fight to protect the Tribe’s drinking water and ancestral lands from the Dakota Access pipeline. A federal judge ruled that the federal permits authorizing the pipeline to cross the Missouri River just upstream of the […] click on picture for original

Many paradigmatic breakthroughs involve a change of metaphor. Someone suggests a new metaphor and it leads to breakthroughs in understanding. It may not be that one person becomes exposed to a new metaphor and the paradigmatic breakthrough happens immediately. I had one that occurred thirty-five years after hearing the new metaphor. I had that breakthrough […] click on picture for original

There’s a very purposeful unfolding taking place smack in the middle of the U.S., and what a fabulous metaphor for the evolution of Humanity it is!

There are many ways to look at any given thing, and at it’s core I suppose this boils down to the struggle of those who’ve invested in the extraction model of business to keep that model firmly in place. People from all over the world and from all walks of life have stood in support of The Water Protectors.

Our prayers are for the opening of every Heart to the Good, True and Beautiful. Officers refuse to participate in violent actions against peaceful protectors, minions of the driving forces behind such destructive practices wake up and realize what they’re actually working for, and they step away from that life entirely. Full support rushes in for all those throwing down the tools of manipulation and control, and there’s no longer any energy at all for such practices.

After receiving notice of the U.S. Army Corps’ plan to evict peaceful protestors from their camps, Sioux tribal leaders have responded with dignity and defiance, promising to stay put in defense of their land and people.

Throughout the months of protests against the controversial Dakota Access pipeline project, the federal government has tried to “spin” its indirect support for the project in order to quell national outrage and prevent further growth of the resistance movement.

In September, the Department of Justice ordered a temporary halt to all construction on the pipeline as the government “reconsidered” its approval for the project. However, construction never stopped as the injunction was voluntary and Energy Transfer Partners, the pipeline’s parent company, continued building. Then again, last month, the US Army Corps of Engineers ordered another temporary halt on construction, which was also ignored, while the Corps held “talks” with the tribes leading the resistance.

This past Friday, the federal government finally made its intentions public when the Corps sent a letter to Sioux tribal leaders, telling them that their camps of peaceful protestors and water protectors would be evicted to protect “the general public.” To add insult to injury, the Corps’ commander told the protestors they could move to an officially sanctioned “free speech zone” away from the construction site.

These hollow words are clearly more “spin” designed to distance the government from its obvious, though indirect support of the $3.8 billion pipeline project.

Tribal leaders have now responded to what they termed the Corps’ “direct and irresponsible threat to the water protectors.” The Cheyenne River tribe, who are co-litigants in a lawsuit against the pipeline, sharply rebuked the plan, citing that the area on which the targeted camps lie are Sioux territory per the 1851 Fort Laramie treaty signed by the Sioux and the US federal government.

Their leader, Harold Frazier, also pointed out that much of the Sioux’s territory had been illegally claimed by the Corps via the Pick-Sloan Flood Control Act, lamenting the US government’s habit of ignoring the numerous treaties it has signed with the indigenous tribes within its borders. The leader of the Standing Rock Sioux, David Archambault II II also seconded this statement, saying that the news of the eviction notice was “saddening” but not surprising considering the US government’s historical treatment of indigenous people.

Frazier said that, in light of the government’s failure to respect tribal land or autonomy, that his tribe and their allies “will no longer allow our rights as a Tribe or as indigenous people as a whole to continue to be eroded.”

Frazier also argued that the Corps’ notice “appears to further empower the militarized police force that has been brutalizing and terrorizing our water protectors while imposing the blame and risk on unarmed peaceful people.” He called the Corps’ decision “a grave and dangerous mistake” and said that the protestors would not be leaving their camps regardless of the threat of removal.

When the Army Corps’ enforces its eviction notice on December 5th, they will be greeted with peaceful resistance, civil disobedience, and prayer. However, groups of military veterans from around the US are set to arrive at the camps to protect protestors on December 4th, a day before the eviction notice takes effect.

This could make for a truly explosive confrontation between the Americans who have chosen to fight for their beliefs and those who have chosen to back the will of the state and corporations.

Oceti Šakowiŋ camp at Standing Rock, North Dakota— On November 20, 2016 Native Americans and their allies walked on to a public bridge and prayed. They bowed their heads in the frigid North Dakota dusk, lit sage and cedar, and began praying for the survival of the Missouri River, for their indigenous cultures, and for the planet and all its inhabitants.

On the other side of a thick razor wire fence, reminiscent of that found on prison walls and war zones, an army of trained killers began to amass with their weaponry. The people praying, which included elders and youth, looked up from their exercise of First Amendment expression and into the foreboding line of police in riot gear, face masks, shields, guns, giant fire extinguisher-sized containers of chemical weapons, grenade launchers of tear gas, Tasers, batons, and what appears to be shotguns which shoot less than lethal bullets, called Specialty Impact Munitions (SIM).

The public servants humiliated their profession by chastising and taunting Native American protectors, laughing when they injured a water protector with their munitions.

Water Protectors began to include the police in their prayers for peace and nonviolence. They prayed for an end to environmental racism as the DAPL pipeline construction loomed in the background. They prayed for an end to systemic racism, as they were surrounded by white allies in the hope that police might spare their brown bodies because they were surrounded by white ones of privilege. Police readied into position a water cannon, or commonly described as a high-pressure fire hose.

And then, in an act deemed illegal and morally intolerable since the 1960’s civil rights era, law enforcement who took an oath to protect and serve everyone, unleashed a violent torrent of freezing cold water upon the brown indigenous people assembled in prayer and allyship in an apparent attempt to wash them out of sight and mind. Bodies were whipped to the ground, innocent people were shocked into hypothermia and unable to move, and worse—many were trapped on the bridge unable to escape.

Police used floodlights to blind the protectors and then began firing less than lethal bullets—the pop pop pop noise and the screams of pain penetrating the freezing night air. Then chemical foggers were sprayed into the crowd, CS gas (teargas) canisters were launched out of high powered weapons, grenades were aimed at peoples’ heads, and the relentless icy force of high pressured fire hoses were continuously used as a form of crowd control for over 5 hours. Protectors collapsed unable to breathe from the chemical weapons, one person began having a seizure and was rendered unconscious.

One woman had a cop intentionally aim a flash bang grenade into her groin. At least two people had their heads split open by less than lethal bullets and required dozens of staples to survive, another young woman was shot in the eye and face, another in the kneecap, another had his knuckles shattered and finger flesh peeled away while he gripped a camera; many more people walked away with welts and bruises.

Many people required medical attention for chemical weapon exposure, respiratory and vision problems. Explosive chemical devices and other incendiary weapons were launched into the crowd by police with reckless abandon. One officer held onto his explosive Instantaneous Blast CS grenade[1] for 5 of the 7 seconds he has to launch it before it explodes, and then threw it directly at a 21-year-old Water Protector named Sophia Wilansky.

It is believed that the grenade exploded on her left arm almost tearing it from her body. As blood began to pour from her body, and in an absolute demonstration of malice, police targeted medics and people attempting to rescue her and other injured people from the bridge. It is still unknown whether Ms. Walinsky must have her arm amputated at her elbow. These are just a few of the almost 300 injuries that were reported on November 20th.

It is for these reasons and more that Water Protectors have filed a civil rights class action seeking an emergency restraining order from the US District Court of North Dakota requesting that the Court put an end to the potentially deadly tactics used by law enforcement against them. The request urges the Court to grant interim relief consisting of an order prohibiting Defendant law enforcement agencies from using excessive force in responding to the pipeline protests and prayer ceremonies and asks specifically for a prohibition on the use of SIM, explosive grenades, chemical agents, and water cannons or hoses, as means of crowd dispersal.

The civil rights complaint seeks justice against the constitutional violations perpetuated against the mostly Native American water protectors, including claims of retaliation and police brutality by law enforcement, as well suing the Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier, and City of Mandan Chief of Police Jason Ziegler for maintaining policies, customs, and practices that led to grave violations of Plaintiffs’ rights secured by the U.S. Constitution.

This Court must decide whether the poorly trained defendant law enforcement agencies used SIM, freezing water, chemical agents, and explosive grenades to harm the Water Protectors and chill or deter them from their lawful exercise of the rights to free speech, association, and religion in violation of the First Amendment.

During the 1960’s civil rights era in the United States, African American activists were killed by police while exercising their constitutional rights. People were injured, traumatized and killed for standing up for what is clearly the right side of justice. Native Americans, long brutalized and repressed by colonizing terrorists, are taking their stand in the fight for justice and environmental sanity.

The State is again responding with terror and violence in the face of a changing moral and social society. The world is watching what is happening at the Oceti Šakowiŋ camp at Standing Rock, North Dakota. The CLDC is honored to be part of the team of lawyers and legal scholars that will relentlessly pursue justice for the Water Protectors against the fascist police attack that occurred on the Backwater Bridge spanning the Cannonball River in Sioux Standing Rock land.

If you would like to support the current efforts at Standing Rock please consider the following actions:

–Call local and federal agencies to demand:

(1) the immediate end to construction of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline, (2) the immediate cessation and a full investigation into law enforcement and DAPL Security guard abuses against Water Protectors, and

(3) demanding the Morton County State’s Attorney dismiss all felony charges against water protectors from the October 27 police raid.

(4) Permit the water protectors to stay at their current encampment until the DAPL’s application to drill under Lake Oahe and the Missouri River is permanently denied.

In what could only be termed a potential gross violation of human rights, the Morton County Sheriff’s Department announced today it plans to block all supplies from entering Standing Rock camps — including deliveries of food.

Reutersreports: “Supplies, including food and building materials, will be blocked from entering the main camp following Governor Jack Dalrymple’s signing of an ‘emergency evacuation’ order on Monday, said Maxine Herr, a spokeswoman from the Morton County Sheriff’s Department.”

Herr flatly stated, according to Reuters, “They have deliveries, retailers that are delivering to them – we will turn around any of those services.”

Although the governor’s order went into effect immediately, North Dakota Department of Emergency Services spokeswoman Cecily Fong noted no deliveries to the camps had yet been turned away as of Tuesday morning.

However, ‘The building materials intended for the site are a top priority because the camp is not zoned for permanent structures,’Reuters reported she said. ‘Propane tanks also will be blocked because they have been used in attacks against law enforcement.’

The latter claim has been proven false by eyewitness video from the night of November 20-21, when law enforcement assaulted peaceful water protectors for over six hours in a non-stop barrage of rubber bullets, tear gas, impact and concussion grenades, and even weaponized water — in temperatures dropping into the low 20s Fahrenheit. Sophia Wilansky’s arm was nearly ripped from her body when an impact grenade exploded. But the sheriff denies police used any weapon that could have caused such damage, despite evidence collected from the scene and by surgeons working to repair her traumatic wound.

Shortly after issuing the notice it would block supplies, the Morton County Sheriff’s Department backed away somewhat, saying it would take a passive role to try to prevent supplies from reaching the camps, by issuing hefty $1,000 fines for vehicles attempting such deliveries — saying it had interpreted the evacuation order as a reason for a blockade.

“That is the understanding that we had initially but we had to get that clarified,” Herr toldReuters. “The governor is more interested in public safety than setting up a road block and turning people away.”

This startling announcement of any attempt at a supply blockage from the Morton County Sheriff’s Department comes during a week of shocking news for Standing Rock Sioux water protectors and their allies camped near the Missouri River to block construction of the highly contentious Dakota Access Pipeline.

An eviction notice letter sent by the Army Corps of Engineers to Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Chairman Dave Archambault II and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Chairman Harold Frazier on Friday sparked furious outrage from around the world — and was met with firm resistance from both tribes.

Clarifying later that no force would be used to effect this eviction, the Army Corps stated, “Those who remain will be considered unauthorized and may be subject to citation under federal, state, or local laws.”

Before the shock wore off from that letter, on Monday, North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple confounded matters further with the issuance of an emergency evacuation order for the same Army Corps-managed, water protector-occupied land as a winter storm advanced on the area.

Although neither U.S. government-issued order would apply had treaties from the 1800s been honored, the attorneys scrambled to determine if the governor’s evacuation supplanted the Army Corps’ eviction — as the date for the camps to become officially illegal would be moved forward significantly from December 5. Archambault denounced Dalrymple’s order as an intimidation tactic and determined it invalid.

However, the Morton County Sheriff’s Department appears to have opportuned the current evacuation order to escalate its curtailment of the basic human rights of the thousands of water protectors estimated to now occupy camps north of the Cannonball River.

Legally and technically speaking, both orders effectively close the camps — except for Sacred Stone Camp, located south of the river — to access by both the public and emergency services.

Thousands of veterans have been planning to arrive at the camps on December 4 to defend water protectors from brutal police tactics employed by the multi-state coalition of police led by the Morton County Sheriff’s Department — and they haven’t yet changed those plans.

According to an update from Reuters, Governor Dalrymple’s spokesman Jeff Zent said, “There is not going to be any blockade of supplies.”

While so much about these breaking developments remains unclear thanks to a lack of information from authorities and officials, one thing is certain. Blocking food and supplies, by any means, from reaching water protectors who have vowed to stay through the winter is not only a violation of human rights and basic decency — if effective, it has the potential to be an horrific tragedy in the making.

PrayWithStandingRock.com and UNIFY are joining together for a global, synchronized prayer on the 26th of November…I’m in!

Greetings,

Will you Stand with Standing Rock with us?
Meditate and Pray with us this week?

We have been feeling a deep call to positively impact the Standing Rock movement, and have received many requests from the UNIFY community for a synchronized prayer.

As non-natives we wanted to be culturally sensitive to the needs of our indigenous friends so we waited to be invited, we asked for guidance, and most importantly for permission.

We are now clear on our role and in full force activation for Standing Rock.

Unify’s Co-founder Patrick and devoted friends from diverse backgrounds – musicians, civil rights lawyers, scientists, yogis, and more – have been traveling for days from Los Angeles, and arrived at Standing Rock yesterday.

We are going to pray on the front lines, protecting what is sacred, offering our devoted service and giving you an opportunity to join us.

Please click here to join the global synchronized prayer November 26th at 3pm Central (4pm EST) that we are organizing in collaboration with, and with the permission of, the Tribal Council at Standing Rock.

You may join a local event on our map or add your own from wherever you are!

“May the prayers be everywhere, all at once!” -Chief Phil Lane

As you may have seen in the news or social media, the tensions are high at Standing Rock right now and we are thus devoted to infusing inner and outer peace through our synchronized prayer, and additional peaceful collaborative efforts as appropriate.

If you are inspired, please join us this Saturday 3pm CST, unifying with thousands world wide as we pray with Standing Rock for one hour of silence.

We are offering an interactive map which will serve as a hub for individuals and organizations to find each other and grow our global community towards a sustainable future that honors our many diverse cultural traditions.

Now, more than ever it is time to stand with our indigenous friends and support them as they protect sacred waters.

They have endured centuries of oppression and though we cannot take away the wrongs of history, we can create a better future together. This is one small way that we can gift them our support.

It is our intention to play a supporting role, to help educate non-natives how to become culturally conscious allies, to raise funds, to raise awareness through a grass-roots social media campaign, to join our energies together in prayer (or meditation) during this time of great potential.

Ways to support:

Click hereto signup for updates, live broadcasts, and the Nov 26th meditation!

Are you inspired to organize a local event Nov 26th, giving your community an opportunity to join the global community? Click here for our organizer resources.

This week of prayers and meditation is one way we say Thank You as one human family as we stand together to protect, heal, and nourish the sacredness of life.

Pidamiyapi (Thank You in Lakota),

Pray with Standing Rock Team

Starting on November 26 and culminating on December 10 (United Nations Human Rights Day) our coalition of organizations will be supporting Standing Rock protectors by hosting multiple online live-stream events, along with local events around the planet.

Our website with interactive map is a hub for individuals and organizations to find each other and grow our global community towards a sustainable future that honors our many diverse cultural traditions

Prayers with Standing Rock Part 4
This is a follow-up of all foregoing scripts part 1 – 3 serving the same theme.

Please, do not stop praying for preserving the pristine fresh waters out there at the plains and sacred land of Dakota. Continue with meditating and praying and give it to the Creator and universe to release it again when the big event of meditations and prayers is announced on the 11/11 each day and for November 26th, 2016.

As for Thanksgiving Day which was yesterday was in my inbox a special thanksgiving article of Laura Bruno with a wonderful poem about WATER. It fitted not only the thanksgiving of us all for the special gifts of the Creator and Nature but at the same time also for the purpose of those wanting to preserve the pristine fresh waters out there as pre-requisites of all human and nature life.
For the above reason I found it only appropriate to copy these Verses of Laura Bruno hereunder together with the introductory thanksgiving phrases of hers. Let us follow up her thanks as well to our all Creator and the Universe and bless Laura for this beautiful gifts.
Let us be so much thankful that it now is the time to stand up and to voice out our hearts´opinion and to do something against spoilage of our last resources of our beloved earth.
It is the time that we all get conscious that it is on us and our actions to safeguard too our loving Earth Mother Gaia !
And here is the wonderful thanksgiving script of Laura Bruno
and a Water PrayerGratitude, Flow

In these days leading up to Thanksgiving, I just want to take a few moments to express gratitude for my amazing readers, clients, friends and family who engage with me in life, sessions and through this blog. I lead a truly blessed life that at the end of a back-to-back session day, I feel so privileged to know so many incredibly sensitive, powerful, magical, loving and astute people out there.
Thank you from the depths of my overflowing heart for being here now.
Thank you for showing up, and thank you for putting your own love and energy back into the world, even when — especially when — that world seems topsy turvy, scary, wild and unpredictable. And thank you for having the courage to withdraw back into your Self, to fill your own well, allowing your own healing through the waters to and from their Source.
And now, a prayer:

May we each flow with the Mighty Element of Water.May the Undines, Mer People, Dolphins and the Swimming OnesJoin with us as we join and flow with them.May the Mighty Element of Water protect and honorThe Water Protectors at Standing Rock.May the Mighty Element of Water reclaim Her Sovereignty:Never again allowing Herself to be forced into abuse.May water cannons reverse upon those intending harm,Blast away the corporate fascismAnd generational brainwashing.May the Mighty Element of Water cleanse all hatred, fear and greed.May this cleansing purify and irrigate the heartsOf any souls so parched that they only know The Wasteland.May the Grail pour Awen upon the crowns of all involved.May inspiration and understanding fill their eyesLike Salmon of Wisdom leaping against the currentInto Destiny.

May the Tides of Change relieve any droughtsAnd nourish hill and dale, and field and tree.May the Crystalline Grid support the rivers and streamsThat lead to Great Lakes and the Pulsing Ocean.

May the Mighty Element of WaterRe-member Her Way as we ride Her Waves.Laura Bruno

I am quite sure that you all when reading these verses you will pray and thank in the same way!
Blessings to all joining here and be with their hearts with Standing Rock !
Contramimi/Contramary

Donate

Thank you for all the amazing support you have shown the Medic & Healer Council!

*** We also need a transport vehicle and snow-ready ATVs URGENTLY – if you have a reliable vehicle you are willing to donate to the cause, please contact us! ***

At this time, we have very specific needs and offer three main ways you can support the council:

1) Purchase remaining Medic supply needs.

A large list of our needs is listed at our Amazon Wish List https://amzn.com/w/284OV04OWXQG9.
You can also reference that list, purchase items locally, and then mark the items as purchased via the Amazon list.

Donated items can be mailed to Standing Rock Medic & Healer Council, PO Box 1251, Bismarck, ND, 58502 – or if you are shipping via UPS or FedEx, please use the address 220 E Rosser Ave #1251, Bismarck ND 58502. Use the number 701-409-0199 as shipping phone if needed.

2) Donate funds to allow us to finalize our winter infrastructure needs, for advanced practitioner gear, for climate-controlled storage of medic supplies, and for emergency contingency supply funds Make a tax deductible donation directly to the Standing Rock Medic & Healer CouncilYour donation is tax deductible and processed through our fiscal sponsor, the Florida School of Holistic Living (501c3). All funds are dispersed directly to our council to support our work on the ground in Standing Rock

3) Send Herbal remedies.

*** Thanks to everyone who has offered herbal remedies. Our current needs are posted below –

Please, Clearly LABEL everything with ALL ingredients! NO ALCOHOL please!

Like this:

Back in Hystory in times of the cold war when the world was divided into the Western hemisphere and the Eastern one by the great wall and the German capitol Berlin was separatedfrom the Western World by such a wall too the US American people founded the famous “Air Bridge = Luftbrücke” in order to fly foodstuff and to save the people of Berlin from starvation and hunger.

John F. Kennedy whom all of us German people honoured and respected highly came to Berlin himelf and held his famous speech there declaring his and the American solidarity with the people of Berlin in their precarious situation.

“Ich bin ein Berliner !”

He ended his speech and from that point onward we all loved him dearly as with this declaration he said that he was one of us in participating and understanding our precarious situation.

Now, with Standing Rock history repeats itself in some similar way and as it was shown way back from the US and John F. Kennedy to back and boost our morals in Germany we, all people of good will and conscious of what are our conditionless rights of living viz. fresh, sweet water, have to be solidarious with all those protesting and trying to stop that more water has to be spoilt as it endangers our all life.

Let us share all calls-up for meditating and praying for the support of stose standing at Littl Rock especially now in the hard times of Winter!

And if you can somehow spare some funds – even small amounts – please donate it to the medicare there.

This is channelled through Contramimi, and as Archangel I would like to speak to your hearts ! As it is with your hearts that you are all standing at the side of all protestors out there.
Let us join in prayers and meditations and ask the universe to let go of these at the right time of the 26th together with all the others or each day at 11.11 a.m/p.m.

Blessings to all which with their hearts declare they belong to the crowd out there at Standing Rock !
Blessing to all there at Standing Rock !

Prayers with Standing Rock
This is a Great Call Up – a channelled one from AA Michael – and it goes to all MANKIND here on our beautiful planet of Earth !
Each human knowing about the protest against the pipelines in the sacred land of standing Rock is called up in his/her heart to stand up with the indigenous people there.

Earth has so much deprived already of her inward treasures because of human greed and selfservice, Most of her inward and outward resources including lifes of Man and Animal have already been sacrificed – taught by the olden 3-D-education, mankind has always stood by and never did anything against it.
Now – we are all waking up and slowly grasping the truth behind all such events. We wake up – for before our all eyes we all go through with the Drama of Standing Rock.
Water is life ! Clear Water is the most precious rockgift of our all Creator to us – and now is the point of time reached to hinder that even more rescourses of Gaia will be demolished by industrial complexes – all the more so, that it is the question of sacred plains of the native people.
Let us see, what we can do ! Let us all join in the great meditation and praying on the 26th November, 2016 and let us see whereby sharing this call-up on Facebook it will go round our globe.

Everybody reading this call-up is seriously asked to share it on the internet. facebook. twitters and etc.Up to the 26th are still 2-3 days and there is enough time to make this meditation worldwide circulating and make it a – shall I say “UPROAR” – of all of us mankind and something to a great event !
There is absolutely no need to go through complicated 3-D-calculations with Time Zones and etc. as these are old duality methods.

Just pray ! As often you feel like it and send your prayers to our all Creator and the universe where time of the 3- Dimenion is unkown – include in your prayer that the universe may send it at the certain given time of meditation on the 26th November and leave it to our godlike parents.
We all are one – so it was said to us. Let us prove it now and seize our chance of unity and solidarity with Standing Rock !

Contramimi/Contramary

“Let us all send our deepest LOVE to Standing Rock ! We all are standing there to protect Gaia ! So that clear fresh waters may may once run through the little hands of our Grandgrandchildren.”